Ajax Equipment
Nickel-handling system has a V-shaped hopper
This solids-handling specialist has supplied Brighouse-based project engineering, design and consultancy service provider, Projex Solutions Ltd. with a handling system comprising a collecting hopper and a screw conveyor for transferring nickel and nickel-oxide powder. The nickel-handling system (photo) collects the powder from a kiln gas cyclone. The mild steel hopper is V-shaped and steep-walled for best flow behavior. The collecting screw features both left and right-hand flights for efficient central discharge. Nickel is a fine, highly dense powder, making it highly abrasive. To mitigate the resulting wear, the flights of the screw have been treated with a hard-wearing coating. — Ajax Equipment Ltd., Bolton, U.K.